What might working from home mean for the geography of work and commuting in the Greater Golden Horseshoe, Canada?

The Covid-19 pandemic has highlighted the precarity of urban society, illustrating both opportunities and challenges. Teleworking rates increased dramatically during may be sustained over long term. For transportation planners, these changes belie broader questions how geography work commuting will change based on pandemic-induced shifts in teleworking what this mean for society policymaking. This study focuses by using survey data ( n = 2580) gathered autumn 2021 to explore current prospective telework. Greater Golden Horseshoe, mega-region Southern Ontario, representing a fifth Canadians. Survey document telework practices before pandemic, including future practices. Inferential models are used develop working-from-home scenarios which allocated spatially respondents’ locations residence. Findings indicate that appears poised increase most relative pre-pandemic levels around downtown Toronto work, but increases more dispersed employees’ Contrary expectations many, is not significantly linked home–work disconnect – suggesting weaken commute–housing trade-off embedded bid rent theory. Together, results portend poor outlook agglomeration economies also nuanced impacts than simply inducing sprawl.